jquery find element's position

Question

<ul>
   <li>one</li>
   <li>element</li>
   <li>text</li>
   <li>val</li>
</ul>

how can i get the position in the ul of the clicked li ?

Answer 1

I think this will do it for you:

$("li").click(function () {

   alert($(this).index());

});

Note that the index() function returns the index of the item in the jquery collection. If you have multiple lists on the page, make sure your selector only selects the list items that you want.

Answer 2

you can do it with index() http://docs.jquery.com/Core/index

Answer 3

$('ul li').click(function() {
    alert(   $(this).parent().find('li').index(this)  );
});

Reference

I only tested with one <ul>. You'll need to .each if you're doing this on multiple <ul>s.